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10 Kronen
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Reichenberg (City of Reichenberg) |
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| Year | 1918-1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue-grey and violet on plain paper with a fine guilloche underprint covering the entire field, the obverse is centred on an octagonal panel bearing the bold legend 'ZEHN KRONEN', flanked by subsidiary panels carrying the numeral '10' and blocks of German text enumerating the guaranteeing banks. At lower centre, the circular municipal seal of the Stadtrat Reichenberg — showing a fortified castle with a lion — is impressed alongside three manuscript signatures of city officials, with the issue date of 30 October 1918. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ausgabe B STADTGEMEINDE REICHENBERG № 012055 GUTSCHEIN ÜBER ZEHN KRONEN Gültig bis 15. Feber 1919. REICHENBERG, den 30. Oktober 1918. Für die Stadtgemeinde Reichenberg: Bürgermeister Stadtrat Stadtrat Für diesen Gutschein haftet die Stadtgemeinde Reichenberg gemäß der mit den nebenstehenden Geldanstalten getroffenen, auf voller Deckung der ausgegebenen Gutscheine beruhenden Vereinbarungen. Reichenberger Bank, Filiale der k. k. priv. Böhmischen Union-Bank; Filiale der k. k. priv. Öst. Creditanstalt f. H. u. G.; Filiale der k. k. priv. Bank- u. Wechselstuben-A.-G. ,,Mercur''; Filiale der k. k. priv. Österr. Länderbank; Filiale des k. k. priv. Wiener Bank-Vereines; Zweiganstalt der Österr. Industr.-u. Handelsbank; Reichenberger Sparkasse; Gemeinde-Sparkasse der Stadt Reichenberg; Bezirks-Sparkasse; sämtliche in Reichenberg |
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Reichenberg — now Liberec in the Czech Republic — was in 1918 the largest German-speaking city in Bohemia, and its municipal government issued notgeld in a direct act of administrative defiance. When the newly proclaimed Czechoslovak state moved to assert control over the Sudetenland in October and November 1918, German-speaking municipalities across the region briefly operated as if the old order still applied, issuing their own emergency currency while the political situation remained unresolved.
The Stadtgemeinde issues were stopgap instruments, filling a coin shortage that the collapsing Habsburg monetary system could no longer address. Reichenberg's notgeld circulated locally for a matter of months before Czechoslovak monetary authority was consolidated and the notes became worthless.